Maggie is an editor for The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) and produces written, video, and podcast content covering several disease states. She joined AJMC® in 2019, and has been with AJMC®’s parent company, MJH Life Sciences®, since 2014, when she started as a copy editor.
She has a BA in English from Penn State University. You can connect with Maggie on LinkedIn.
Does Cardiogenic Shock Affect Mortality, Heart Failure Risks Among First-time MI Survivors?
October 9th 2020At the 1-year mark, following their first myocardial infarction (MI, or heart attack), heart failure hospitalizations and all-cause mortality were higher among patients who also had cardiogenic shock vs those who did not.
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How Do Hospitalizations for Heart Failure Differ Before vs During the COVID-19 Era?
October 7th 2020Patients hospitalized for acute heart failure during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had more advanced disease and were more symptomatic, according to study results out of Australia.
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Patients, Health Care Providers Prioritize Heart Failure Education Differently
October 2nd 2020The results of a recent study out of South Korea show that diet management education appeared more important to health care providers than it did their patients, while both expressed the significance of medication knowledge.
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Mortality Higher Among Women With Interval vs Screening-Detected Breast Cancers
October 1st 2020Results from a study on Canadian women who did and did not participate in a population-based breast cancer screening program show that interval breast cancers are more aggressive and deadlier than screening-detected cancers.
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Infection With SARS-CoV-2 May Predispose Patients to HFpEF
October 1st 2020Patients testing positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019, are presenting more often with signs of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
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Combo Treatment Bests Cemiplimab Monotherapy, Phase 2 Data Show
September 30th 2020Study results presented during the virtual European Society for Medical Oncology meeting demonstrated the superiority of cemiplimab (Libtayo) plus ipilimumab vs cemiplimab monotherapy for non–small cell lung cancer.
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PrEP Costs Must Come Down for Uptake to Increase, Study Says
September 26th 2020Over a 4-year study period, the price for 30 tablets of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication increased more than 20%, potentially keeping the medication out of the hands of those most at risk for potentially contracting HIV.
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Do Biomarkers, CV Risk Factors Determine Heart Failure Development in Women, Men?
September 26th 2020Over 12.5 years of follow-up, close to 10% of participants developed incident heart failure in a recent study that investigated possible differentiation of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and biomarkers based on sex.
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Drug Resistance Mutations Increasingly Showing Up in Germany Among HIV-Positive Individuals
September 22nd 2020Despite the known benefits of antiretroviral therapy, the treatment may prove more difficult to use among clusters of patients with HIV exhibiting resistance to certain drug classes.
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Remote HIV Testing, Phone Delivery of Results Has Potential Despite Drawbacks
September 19th 2020Because men who have sex with men continue to represent a disproportionate number of annual HIV diagnoses each year, a recent study investigated the utility of remote testing and phone delivery of test results among the patient group.
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Patients With Heart Failure May Need Adjusted Physical Activity Intensity Thresholds
September 16th 2020Widely accepted guidelines that patients with cardiac diseases still get at least 150 minutes of exercise each week may need to adjust their accelerometer data for patients with heart failure.
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Quality of Care, Mortality Consistent Among MA, FFS Medicare Enrollees With Heart Failure
September 12th 2020Reports of Medicare Advantage (MA) patients receiving higher-quality care for their cardiovascular disease prompted this comparison study of patients with heart failure enrolled in Medicare fee-for-service plans (FFS) and MA plans.
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Possible Link Found Between Breast Cancer Mortality and Childhood Radiation Treatment
September 11th 2020Study results show that among premenopausal women, adulthood second primary breast cancer may carry with it a 2-fold greater risk of death if they had undergone radiation treatment for cancer as a child or young adult.
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Early-Onset Breast Cancer Possibly Linked to Preeclamptic Pregnancy, High Birth Weight
September 6th 2020With little research on the subject, the investigators sought out a connection between certain perinatal factors and risk of young-onset breast cancer in a sister-matched case-control study.
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How Were HIV Care Services in South Carolina Interrupted by the COVID-19 Pandemic?
September 1st 2020Results from a recent study in the state show how its HIV service care continuum was affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic (COVID-19), namely that more than a quarter of HIV clinics had to close completely.
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Is Chronic Traffic Noise Linked to Risk of Heart Attack, Heart Failure?
August 29th 2020Evidence shows a possible connection between chronic exposure to traffic noise and atherosclerosis progression, but not major cardiovascular events such as acute myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure, until now.
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